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🧠 Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.6 💰 Amazon plans $200B in AI spending ❌ EU says TikTok needs to drop "addictive design" 🍎 Apple scales back AI health coach plans 💻 OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex its self-building coding model 📱 Meta tests a standalone app for its AI-generated ‘Vibes’ videos 🎁 + 15 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 1 trending papers & reports
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🧠 Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.6
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- Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, its newest model, featuring a 1M token context window in beta — a first for the company's Opus-class models — along with stronger coding and agentic task performance.
- Opus 4.6 scores highest on benchmarks like Terminal-Bench 2.0, Humanity's Last Exam, and BrowseComp, and beats OpenAI's GPT-5.2 by around 144 Elo points on the GDPval-AA knowledge work evaluation.
- New developer tools include adaptive thinking, four effort levels, context compaction for longer-running agents, and agent teams in Claude Code that let multiple agents work in parallel on tasks.
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💰 Amazon plans $200B in AI spending
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- Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, up from the $125 billion it had estimated for 2025 and well ahead of analyst expectations.
- CEO Andy Jassy tied the $200 billion AI spending plan to strong demand for existing offerings and opportunities in AI, custom chips, robotics, and low earth orbit satellites.
- Amazon's stock sunk more than 10% in after-hours trading after the $200 billion spending plan was revealed alongside missed Wall Street profit expectations in its Q4 earnings.
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❌ EU says TikTok needs to drop "addictive design"
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- The European Commission announced preliminary findings that TikTok's addictive design, including features like infinite scroll, breaches the Digital Services Act and fails to protect users adequately.
- Regulators said TikTok's Daily Screen Time warnings are "easy to dismiss" and its parental controls require too much effort, so the company must "change the basic design of its service."
- TikTok called the findings "categorically false and entirely meritless" and vowed to challenge them, while the ongoing investigation could eventually lead to fines of up to 6 percent of global annual turnover.
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🍎 Apple scales back AI health coach plans
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- Apple has scaled back Project Mulberry, its planned AI-powered health coach for the Health app, after leadership changes in the company's health and AI organizations prompted a reassessment of the initiative.
- Services chief Eddy Cue, who now oversees the health team, told colleagues that Apple's plan wasn't compelling enough compared to rivals like Oura Health and Whoop and their iPhone apps.
- Some Project Mulberry features may still ship individually over time, including one that would use the iPhone's camera to analyze how a person walks, plus Siri health queries in iOS 27.
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💻 OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex its self-building coding model
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- OpenAI has released GPT-5.3-Codex, a new coding model designed for developers that the company says set record scores on SWE-bench Pro and Terminal-Bench while running 25% faster than its predecessor.
- The model showed a big jump on Terminal-Bench 2.0, scoring 77.3% compared to 64.0% for GPT-5.2-Codex, and on OSWorld-Verified it reached 64.7% versus the prior model's 38.2%.
- Developers can now steer and interact with GPT-5.3-Codex mid-task without losing context, and the model provides frequent progress updates so users can ask questions and guide it in real time.
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📱 Meta tests a standalone app for its AI-generated ‘Vibes’ videos
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- Meta confirmed it is testing a standalone app for Vibes, its AI-generated short-form video feature that lets people create, share, and browse AI videos in a dedicated feed.
- Vibes previously lived inside the Meta AI app, but spinning it out positions the product as a more direct competitor to Sora, OpenAI's AI video and social app.
- Meta also plans to explore freemium access and paid subscriptions for Vibes video creation, letting users unlock additional monthly video creation opportunities in the coming months.
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Goldman Sachs is tapping Anthropic’s AI model to automate accounting, compliance roles
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Inside Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion AI and Space Megamerger
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A16z VC wants founders to stop stressing over insane ARR numbers
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NASA will now allow astronauts to take their smartphones to space
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Tesla launches China AI training centre as self-driving race accelerates
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Google hints at big AirDrop expansion for Android "very soon"
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Tim Cook reflects on Apple's 50 years and retirement coming for us all
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Tim Cook teases new product categories and services enabled by AI
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TSMC is on track to have more employees than Intel for the first time in history
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Apple was once ‘carpet bombing’ Tesla with recruiting calls, per Elon Musk
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China’s humanoid robot makers pivot from ‘body’ to ‘brain’ as commercial race heats up
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Zuckerberg on why Meta should do less safety research: ‘Apple doesn’t study any of this’
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🧰 Trending tools
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Claude Opus 4.6: a large language model with 1M token context window designed for complex coding, research, and multi-step reasoning tasks requiring deep analysis.
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BayesLab: an autonomous AI analyst that cleans, analyzes, and visualizes data while generating presentation-ready slides, letting non-technical users perform deep analysis in minutes.
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BetterBugs MCP: connects bug tracking workflows to AI assistants, enabling automated screen capture, session replay analysis, and direct integration with issue trackers like Jira.
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Y Bombinator: evaluates YC applications by identifying strengths and weaknesses, helping founders assess their readiness before applying to Y Combinator.
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TabAI: automatically captures and organizes tasks from browser tabs, text, and tools while blocking distractions to maintain focus on current goals.
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Agent Arena: tests AI agents' resistance to prompt injection attacks hidden in web pages through 10 different manipulation techniques.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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Bringing AI to Finance: Your free guide to understanding how intelligent automation is transforming finance teams, improving accuracy, and accelerating day-to-day operations. Get the free AI guide.
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Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models: asking AI models personality test questions in different ways exposes contradictory beliefs, suggesting safety training creates surface compliance rather than genuine alignment.
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